Simon Reynolds presents Eldritchtronica and Wyrd Bliss Mixtape

Purveyor of all things musically interesting, be it criticism, essays, liner notes, blogging etc etc, UK journalist Simon Reynolds has been sharing the love for many years now for institutions such as Melody Maker, NY Times, Village Voice, Spin, Guardian, Rolling Stone, Observer, New Statesman, Wire, Blissblog…the list goes on. Here’s a mix he did exploring his fave trax of the past decade. Tasty!

I spotted this posted over at Schismatrix, but it was created for Pontone, both excellent sites I recommend you spend some time exploring.

“When Pontone asked if I fancied coming up with a mixtape of favorites from the last decade, I thought “that could get pretty motley”. So I focused on a particular sound-stream: “eldritchtronic”, a non-existent genre that cuts across a bunch of zones (hauntology, the trippier end of microhouse, hypnagogic/glo-fi, the Brooklyn school of “ecstatic experimental”, etc). Mostly electronic but rarely intersecting with the dancefloor, this music merges blissy and eerie, the wired and the wyrd. And because the 2000s was when the linear temporality of music definitively dissolved, there’s leakage from the remote past, musique concrete and text-sound by artists I encountered for the first time during the Noughties.” – Simon Reynolds